About ReelGuard
Eliminating guesswork for short-form vertical video. Inspect safe zones, preview platform UI cutoffs, and reposition crops before publishing.
Why We Built ReelGuard
Every short-form video editor knows the frustration: you spend hours color grading, animating kinetic captions, placing product logos, or timing hook text — only to upload the video and discover that TikTok's right-hand interaction rail covers your main call-to-action, or Instagram's multi-line caption obscures the speaker's mouth.
ReelGuard is a free, browser-based utility created specifically for video editors, digital creators, social media managers, and performance marketers. It gives you an instant, high-fidelity visual simulator of the obstructive UI elements on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts — directly in your browser.
Key Capabilities
Accurate, toggleable danger zones representing top headers, search bars, right-rail action buttons, captions, and bottom sound bars across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
Switch effortlessly between 9:16 (Story/Shorts/Reels), 1:1 (Square), 4:5 (Portrait feed), and 16:9 (Landscape). Click and drag directly on the preview to pan and reposition the crop with 1:1 pixel accuracy.
Quickly align human subjects, eye levels, product placements, and visual hooks using the industry-standard rule-of-thirds grid system.
No sign-up, no login, and zero server storage. Your confidential unreleased client videos and drafts never leave your device.
Our Design Philosophy
We believe tools should be lightning fast, private by default, and clutter-free. You shouldn't have to register an account, enter a credit card, or wait for cloud rendering queues just to verify that your captions aren't cutoff by a like button. ReelGuard is fast, accessible, and will remain free to help the creator community build more impactful video content.
Ready to verify your short-form video?
Drop your video or image into ReelGuard and preview platform overlays in seconds.